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To: FairOpinion
The statements about Nazi-like behavior does NOT in any way intended to diminish the horrors of the Holocaust, it is pointing out the slippery slope.

Problem is that with the vivid pictures and the Nazi flag it does serve to diminish the horrors of the Holocaust, even without meaning to do so. At any rate, it does to me. I have to admit though that I really always seem to turn off to "slippery slope" arguments. I find them not compelling and off putting. But if you want to make them I understand. Is it possible to do so without such graphic pictures of starving Jews and the Nazi flag? As a Jew on the side of Terri and the Schindlers I find it distasteful and not persuasive. And I doubt that's just me.

53 posted on 04/02/2005 8:40:04 PM PST by SoCar (Refugee from NJ)
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To: SoCar

I tend to agree with you and I understand.

I am sure people do not do it to offend Jews, nor to minimize the horrors of what the Nazis did to the Jews -- but one can hardly miss the parallel in attitudes, such as "it's legal, they are only following orders" and so on.

And remember all the appeasers in Europe, who didn't think Hitler would ever really do what he eventually did.


62 posted on 04/02/2005 8:49:49 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: SoCar

The nazi references are pathetic. They diminish what really happened to Terri...by trying to twist it into something other than what it was. Terri's situation stands on it's own. It does not need false propping up with Nazi imagery. Dio's own opinion notwithstanding.


116 posted on 04/02/2005 11:16:49 PM PST by TheOtherOne
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To: SoCar
And I doubt that's just me.

Of course it's not just you.

There were millions who didn't see where Hitler was heading either until it too latte for millions.

Do you think we should just shrug our shoulders and 'move on?"Hopefully, no country will be asleep at the wheel like that again - only to wake up when it's everlastingly too late.

127 posted on 04/02/2005 11:32:05 PM PST by maine-iac7 ("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL OF THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
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